Editing North (section)

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:TB March on Winterfell.png|thumb|350px|[[Stannis Baratheon]]'s forces [[march on Winterfell]], by Tiziano Baracchi © Fantasy Flight Games]]
In {{Date|300}}, Lord [[Wyman Manderly]] has completed some forty-six warships.{{Ref|ADWD|15}}{{Ref|ADWD|29}}<ref group="N">Davos sees twenty-three ships in the harbor (''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 16|Davos II]]), but according to Lord Wyman, there are "as many more" hidden up the White Knife (''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'', [[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 29|Davos IV]])</ref> Wyman secretly tasks [[Davos Seaworth]] with bringing [[Rickon Stark]] back from [[Skagos]].{{Ref|ADWD|29}}

The [[House Ryswell|Ryswells]] and [[House Dustin|Dustins]] defeat the [[ironborn]] at the [[Fever River]].{{Ref|ADWD|15}} [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] uses [[Theon Greyjoy]] to resolve the [[siege of Moat Cailin]] and thereby allow Lord [[Roose Bolton]] to march north with his Frey allies.{{Ref|ADWD|20}}{{Ref|ADWD|37}} From the roughly twenty thousand northmen who marched south with [[Robb Stark]] at the start of war, only one in five returns north, most of them men from [[House Bolton]].{{Ref|ADWD|20}}

Roose has a tenuous grasp over the north, considering only the Ryswells and Dustins to be loyal allies because of marriage ties. The [[House Cerwyn|Cerwyns]], [[House Tallhart|Tallharts]], [[House Umber|Umbers]], and [[House Manderly|Manderlys]] are reluctant supporters or are outright plotting against Roose.{{Ref|ADWD|32}} Ramsay marries "[[Arya Stark]]", who is actually [[Jeyne Poole]], at [[Winterfell]] in order to claim the ancient capital of the north.{{Ref|ADWD|37}}

Rather than attacking the [[Dreadfort]], [[Stannis Baratheon]] is convinced by [[Jon Snow]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], to travel west from [[Castle Black]] to the [[northern mountains]]. The [[northern mountain clans|mountain clans]] field him three and a half thousand men,<ref group="N">Stannis Baratheon had come north with no more than fifteen hundred men ([[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 19|''A Dance with Dragons'', Davos III]]), and has five thousand men after the mountain clans join him ([[A Dance with Dragons-Chapter 35|''A Dance with Dragons'', Jon VII]]).</ref> and Stannis [[fight by Deepwood Motte|liberates Deepwood Moote]] for the [[House Glover|Glovers]].{{Ref|ADWD|26}} The king marches through the [[wolfswood]] to take Winterfell from Roose. Stannis's [[march on Winterfell]] is slowed, however, by strong blizzards{{Ref|ADWD|62}} which also hamper Roose.{{Ref|ADWD|46}}

After receiving [[Bastard Letter|an inflammatory letter]] from Ramsay, Jon asks for volunteers from the [[free folk]] to help him march south toward Winterfell to confront the Bastard of Bolton. Jon is betrayed in the [[mutiny at Castle Black]], however.{{Ref|ADWD|69}}